Cynthia Davila-ChaseMr. BrownEnglish 11B/Period 523 March 2014Decades - The Cold WarToday there is a single event in history that continues to have effects on the entire world. It is one of many still discussed and debated in the beginning. The source of many social and political events in the world, the Cold War is that event. So what exactly was the Cold War? Since the country gained independence and began to live on its own, we have always fought for our freedoms and natural human rights. The war was an arms race and a battle for the freedom of individual Eastern countries from communism, and therefore it was our duty to protect those other countries from oppressive dictates. The common enemy talked about in many war texts always points the finger at us, and that enemy was Russia. Thanks to Stalin's continuous invasion in those times, today many Eastern countries are still affected economically and socially; some countries are still divided, like Korea, divided between north and south. As such, the Cold War originated from the conflict between the United States and the UN (Soviet Russia), with the UN largely to blame. The first real beginning of the Cold War began with the Yalta Conference. The conference was held in eastern Yalta in February 1945, two years before the official start of the war. Run by the leaders of the Allied Powers, Joseph Stalin of Russia, Winston Churchill of Great Britain and Theodore Roosevelt of the United States, it marked the first steps in the Cold War. The conference was organized to discuss the fate of Germany and its affiliates after World War II. As Germany was held responsible for World War II, it was held responsible for... middle of paper... by friends and family on both sides. The barrier was then protected by other military tactics such as cables, alarms, dogs and sentries, among other means. It was marked to prevent the immigration of people who would morally interfere with the division between free and communist Germany. Many tried to escape to the other side to reach the elective regions, but unfortunately crossing was too great a risk to their lives. The wall fell nearly 40 years later with subsequent late-Cold War protests and rebellions associated with other events of the 1980s, and even when it was torn down there were still restrictions on crossings between East and West. The Cold War and the UN-initiated events over Berlin lasted almost until this decade, and this shows how much its spread influenced today's countries and served as the origin for the start of the war..